The moderation of Margaret Thatcher

1:57 PM,
Apr. 10, 2013

Written by

Froma Harrop

In honoring Margaret Thatcher, some of her greatest fans complain, "They don't make conservatives like that any more."

But they do. Problem is, the Republican right wing now running the party primaries would chew a Thatcher-type politician into unelectable shards.

It takes a brave conservative to engage in detail-oriented fights over what government should and shouldn't do. How much easier to draw simple-minded cartoons of bloated government and condemn any public program as "socialism." Ideological purists may shudder, but this hard process is called governing. ...